{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33021,"auction_id":40,"set_id":65,"lot_number":"108","artist":"Jose Rizal  (1924-1984)","title":"El Filibusterismo","starting_price":1700000,"signed_dated":"Copyright 1891 by F. Meyer-Van Loo Press Vlaanderenstraat, Gent, Belgium First Edition,","medium":"Hardcover","size":"8 3/4 x 6” (22 x 15 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"An illustrious Spanish collection","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The Noli and The FilI are perhaps the most famous Filipino books \nby the most famous Filipino, José Rizal. They cost our foremost \nhero his life — and would mean arrest, torture, and even death for \nanybody who possessed a copy.\nThese novels have shaped not only our identities but our fate as \na nation. And they speak to us still after more than one hundred \nyears. \nTo have the first edition of the Fili and second editions of both Noli \nand Fili are simply extraordinary.\n— Lisa Guerrero Nakpil\nRizal’s second novel, El Filibusterismo, was dedicated to the three \npriests, Gomez, Burgos and Zamora, who were executed because \nof their supposed participation in the Mutiny of Cavite of 1872, \nfirst revolutionary campaign of modern Philippine nationalism. The \nword had a broad meaning in the Philippines in the 19th century, \nwhen Spaniards considered 'filibusterismo' to mean the idea of the \nbreaking away of the colony from the mother country, and \n'filibusteros' were those who aspired for the realization of this \nidea. Rizal, however, described a filibuster as: \nThose who do not raise their hats to Spaniards. Those who only \ngreet a friar instead of kissing his hand or his habit. Those who \noffer resistance to being addressed with the familiar \"tu\" by the \nbest Spaniard. Those who subscribe to a periodical from Spain or \nanother European country. Those who, at elections, give their vote \nto a candidate other than the one recommended by the priest.\nThose who read books other than miracle stories and biographies \nof saints. \n\"In brief, all those,\" Rizal sums up, \"who in modern civilized \ncountries and under normal conditions would be considered \ngood citizens, lovers of progress and enlightenment. All of these \nare looked upon as filibusters and enemies of public order and, \nlike a lightning conductor, draw misery and wretchedness upon \nthemselves during turbulent times.\" \nThe Fili, as the book was called in its abbreviated form, is a continuation \nof the Noli in its plot. Again, the main character is Crisostomo Ibarra, \nbut this time, however, assumes the role of Simoun, a business magnate \nand jeweler, whose only thoughts are to overthrow the existing colonial \nrule. He is moved partly by political motives and partly by a personal \ndesire for revenge. He proceeds in accordance with the principle that the \nworse the conditions are, the earlier the revolution will be. Thus, he uses \nhis wealth to promote the corruption of the ruling class, its arrogance \ntowards the natives and the oppression machinery — and at the same \ntime to draw the attention of the oppressed people to the conditions \nwhich he himself, to some extent, has caused, and to provoke their \nopposition. All of Simoun's plans, however, miscarry; the revolution does \nnot succeed and Simoun seeks refuge in the solitude of the mountains, \nwhere strangely, there is a priest with whom the fugitive weighs his \nactions carefully before his death. \nThe Fili was essentially a call to revolution although with many limitations. \nIt was published in an extensively more relaxed atmosphere than the \nNoli and created a stir, when for the first time, a Spanish newspaper, the \nliberal \"Nuevo Regimen\" (New Regime) reproduced the novel in daily \nsequels in October 1891. \nThe friars too were convinced of the value of the Fili and were said to \nhave offered Rizal a professorship at the University of Manila, an estate \nand 100,000 pesos in cash for the retraction of both novels. To this offer, \nRizal is supposed to have answered that he will not undo with the left \nhand what he has done with the right. If his books were true, then he \nwould have written about them, the friars. If not, then they would have \nnothing to fear. \"You are trying to drown me in a glass of water, but you \ncannot even succeed in doing it in an ocean.\" He dismissed brusquely \neven the request of his sister to consider the offer. \nThe copy of El Filibusterismo being offered was published in Ghent in \n1891. It is hardbound in a leather binding and is in excellent condition. \n-Martin I. 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